The Best Thing EVER...

It was a pretty normal day today; lessons, lunch, talk to some fellow delusional student, listen to music, do homework, eat cookies, driving lesson, (should be taking my test very soon yeh!), talk to teacher, go eat avocado… the usual routine. Until somebody started talking about ‘the best thing ever’. Why is everyone using the term ‘the best thing ever’? Its fine to say that something is amazing, or that it is aesthetically pleasing, or I love this, or even I would seriously recommend this because it is AWESOME… but ‘the best thing ever’? Every single time I hear that phrase all I can think of is ‘wow your life is pretty narrow-minded’. Why should one person think they know what the ‘best’ of something is? I would be much more inclined to try something when people tell me it is really good, than when they say it is ‘the best thing ever’. We could go into all kinds of philosophical discussion about what do we even mean by the ‘best’ thing of all time (and how can we possibly know?), but even in a casual, every-day sense, I don’t see how somebody can make the claim that they know what the ‘best thing ever’ is. Say… milkshakes. Why is everyone on a mission to show me where I can get the ‘best milkshake ever’.

“Maybe another time…”

“Seriously, this is the best milkshake everrrrr!!”

“I don’t really feel like a milkshake right n…”

“Come on! It is genuinely, like, the BEST milkshake everrrrrrrrr!”

So, after about 10 minutes of persuading me to buy the ‘best milkshake ever’ there and then, I finally do so, and find out, much to my dismay, that ‘the best milkshake ever’… is crap. Total CRAP. The flavour sucked, the cream sucked, even the milk base seemed more like nuclear waste than anything else. And this only provokes them into spending another 10 minutes explaining to you why you should also see the milkshake as ‘the best thing ever’. Why can’t students just talk about, and share the things that they enjoy and love, rather than pestering fellow students into milkshake oblivion. And its not just students; some teachers (not all), but some, use this phrase to try and promote their own subject, telling you how you should have a definite passion for it, just because they do.

“Do chemistry for A-Level. Really, it’s the best thing ever! Isn’t chemistry the best thing ever?!”

“NO. Can I go home now?!”

Anyway, talking about routine listen to ‘Everyday is exactly the same’ by Nine Inch Nails and ‘I Speak Because I Can’ by Laura Marling.

No offence to chemists of any kind… its actually a very interesting subject I am sure, I was just using this to make a point. Thanks to Foamy for some of the lingo.